Wednesday

Trip to Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota

Motor coaches will take us north to the Lake Superior Transportation Musuem. Among the a displays you will have an opportunity to see are the Milwaukee Road’s EF-1 10200, their first electric freight locomotive and Duluth Missabe and Iron Range’s Yellowstone type locomotive number 227. The visit will also include a ride over the former Duluth Missabe and Iron Range line to Two Harbors, now operated by the North Shore Scenic Railway. Runbys and lunch will be provided. At Two Harbors, you will have an opportunity to see the depot, DM&IR ore loading docks and you will also see another one of DM&IR's famous yellowstone type locomotives on display.

As of June 27th, we have a few (less than 10) coach and first class tickets available.

Alternate Event - Twin City Railfan Sites tour

There are a lot of railfan interest sites in the Twin Cities to see and this tour will cover some of them. The tour will start with a tour of the James J. Hill mansion (home of James J Hill, the “Empire Builder”), proceed to Bandana Square, the former Northern Pacific car shops where major passenger car overhauls were performed right into the Amtrak era.  Here you’ll return to the Twin Cities circa 1948 in O Gauge courtesy of the Twin Cities Model Railroad Museum. From here we head for luncheon and tours of the station at the former Milwaukee Road Depot, currently the Marriott Courtyard Hotel.

As of June 27th, this trip is sold out.